Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The first photo shows a young black woman walking with school books cradled in her left arm. Professor David Krugler (University of Wisconsin, Platteville) is the author of 1919, The Year of Racial Violence: How African Americans Fought Back (Cambridge University Press, 2015) as well as of two books on US policy during the Cold War.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I started learning about the diaspora through books and archives when I attended a historically Black university (HBCU) for graduate school. Amid bans on teaching Black history and calculated attempts at falsifying history, we all need a recalibration in the importance of telling full stories about America’s past and present.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Children can also collect and publish oral histories about a place. Teachers and students can learn by doing place-based projects together, all the while meeting and exceeding required academic standards in authentic and meaningful ways. Distinguishing weather from climate is a good foundational step.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. school system is a “mess.” Do they feel that way? Magdalena Slapik has been asking them.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Taylor Branch wrote in The New York Times Book Review that Dr. Hamilton’s “diligent scholarship has uncovered more than a good book’s worth of Powell material.” Hamilton published a biography, “Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.: The Political Biography of an American Dilemma ,” in 1991.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2017

A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. I just like reading and diving into different books, and I like writing about it after I read it, so I know what I learned and what I need to work on.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. school system is a “mess.” Do they feel that way? . Magdalena Slapik has been asking them.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

In the past, he might slam a book on a desk to wake up a student, he said, but this school year he’s taking a gentler approach. Related: ‘It’s so hard and so challenging’: An oral history of year three of the pandemic. He tries to spark that same passion in students, but it’s been challenging. It’s a weird feeling,” he added.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. school system is a “mess.” Do they feel that way? Magdalena Slapik has been asking them.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. school system is a “mess.” Do they feel that way? Magdalena Slapik has been asking them.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. school system is a “mess.” Do they feel that way? Magdalena Slapik has been asking them.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2017

A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. school system is a “mess.” Do they feel that way? Magdalena Slapik has been asking them.

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Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

” She wrote a book on her experiences, titled, The Scalpel and the Silver Bear which discusses this desire to combine Navajo healing philosophies with western medicine. Elliott-High Eagle, Oral History, interviewed by David Zierler Oct. In 2013, she was a nominee to become the U.S. Lori Arviso Alvord,” retrieved Nov.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. school system is a “mess.” Do they feel that way? Magdalena Slapik has been asking them.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Now that he’s back in person, there are certain things he needs to do — coming in, taking off your coat, unzipping and unbuttoning, putting your book bags in your cubbies. The post “It’s so hard and so challenging:” An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

We’re ready to have a really difficult year in the books,” said Eric Gordon, who leads the high-poverty Cleveland Metropolitan School District. The post ‘Next year will be a better year’: An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling, Part III appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Related: An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling. This was a man-made disaster, not an inevitable consequence of COVID,” Hartney, whose book “ How Policies Make Interest Groups: Governments, Unions, and American Education ” will be published this fall, said in a statement.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2017

A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. I think people don’t really value reading and books as much as they used to and that is a big problem. school system is a “mess.” Do they feel that way?

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Zinn Education Project

AUGUST 20, 2024

Students share thoughts on what makes a “qualified” voter, then reconsider after reading an oral history by Fannie Lou Hamer. Here is an excerpt from that oral history interview: McMillen: When you first tried to vote, where was that? The first lesson considers who should vote. Was that in Ruleville?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 29, 2024

The book focuses on a family thats been relocated to Nuuk, Greenland. How did you come up with the idea for this book? People succeed in the book in coming together and taking collective action to keep the climate crisis from worsening. Wishing you a restful holiday and I look forward to connecting in the new year.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2017

A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. school system is a “mess.” Do they feel that way? Magdalena Slapik has been asking them.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

A scholarly book or article about history or philosophy counts. So does a local oral-history project, an art exhibit, or a dinner-table conversation about books, movies, or music. Like air, humanities-driven work is everywhere but taken for granted, so much a part of life its easy to overlook.

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